Acetylene-gas apparatus.



ANDREW MOSER, or HICKMAN, NEBRASKA.

AcE'rYLENE-GAS APPARATUS.

Specification ofiietters fatclit. i Patented Feb. 18,

Appeal-.tion meaiiovemher 4, 119m serial No. 729,433.

To all who/mit may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW MOSER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hickman, in the county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Acetylene-Gas Ap.- paratus, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to apparatus for,

generating acetylene gas, andA its object is to provide a simple, safe and easily .controlled aparatus of this kind which 1s so constructed that it may be placed on the outside of a building. A gas holder of the tank and bell type is provided, and the parts are so arranged that gas may be gen,- erated at the same time it is being used. These objects are attainedby a novel combination and arrangement of parts `to be hereinafter described and claimed,` reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which an, elevation of the apparatus, partly in section is shown.

In the drawing, 5 denotes the casing .of

the generator into which the carbid is fed' from a holder 6, the feed device being operated by a manually actuatedy gearing 7. These parts may nary or preferred manner.

The gas-outlet pipe indicated at 8. This pipe has a safety-valve 9 from which extends a pipe 10 to which is coupled a flexible hose 11 which leads to a gas holder to be presently described The pipek 10 also contains a T-coupling '12 to which is connected la fiexiblehose 13 which leads to a purifier 14, and from the latter a service pipe 15 extends to the house or other place where the gas is to be' used. The pipe 10, between the safety-valve 9 and the coupling 12, has a valve 16. ,y

The gas-holder comprises an open-top tank 17 and a bell 18. The tank is annular and the space between the inner wall therea dome 19.V

of is closed over at the top b The bell of the holder exten sdown into the space between the inner and outer walls of the tank, said space being filled with'water to seal the bell. In freezing weather the sealing medium may Vbe mixed with wood alcohol. l

Above the dome of the bell 18 is located a pipe 20'which has connected at one of its endsv the-hose 11.` To the other end of the pipefi's connected anelbow 21 to which be arranged in any vordiof thel generator l is is Coupiea a shoe pijp@ 5r nippieea wie@ opens int-o the bell throu h the ,domel thereof. Intermediate its en s,.,the pipey 20 is' provided with' a"T-couplingg23 tewhichis connected a pipe 24 4which extends throughl the dome of the bell and' dowii into' thejs'eal- 1n medium between the] side wallmof 'the bel and the inner wallettlief" gasvpasses dewn the' pipeffiej charged from the .lower end the c'if'ir'itk the sealing medium.y throu and passes into ,the beu. hei length-pf the of the upward travelo th which there caribe n's atmosphere. :The'ex'ibl bell to freely rise. and?. ference. i,

The outlet" ofther gas freni/fthe' bell through the, nipple or pipe 22, 'and-.between "bells layer 0f" .pi e 24 is such that. its lowerfenjd" is still j su merged in the sealinfg medium atftheQendj,

thesame and the gas inletgpipe24,ithe ipe*;;f.

20 is provided witha'valve,125',` 4 The o rationmof the l. appel-tug is 10W 811th@ 'genratr ilsl-.w''rkingfth gas passes throughthe .pipe1 0,'hose-{1-13?I and', y A pipe 24l into the holder.l l. Thefvalve; 2'5'vlwvi1l-r l be closed soth'atthe' gasmay pass.''thi-ougli5l the sealing medium beforeentering'theabell,

as hereinbefore described... yAfter suicient gas has-beeny generated,the valve -I1.6 is

can Snow pass outy *of the bell throiigh the closed and` the. valve .25."opei'ied.v 'The gas y pipey or nipple 22 and `is carried bythe pipev I i I 20 tov the hose l11, and' from the latter vitffo passes through thehose `13 into-fthe` puriier 14, and isdischarged therefrom throu h the service pipe 15.*` The generator may -a so; be

operate opening the valve 16, asthereisno` di erence of pressure.v

enables the former to be cleaned out.' l

placed on the outside ofthe'buildingffso This valve, when 'closed l shuts oif the generator from the holder, ann

The apparatus herein Vdescribed lcan o that the vparts 'are readily' accessible, and

there will be no needofusingv a'v l-i'ghttojy i examine the same, in y. 'viewv ofl which-all There are no complicated parte to get-oitj position of -the i bel of order, andthere is no danger ofjtheyap ivparatusruiining out of gas,jasfthe"position".l of the apparatus-enables the owner tofr'ad u ily see how vmuch gasl is' inljthe"heldemtliel indicatingfthis'. When;

the" bell is low, the'generator can be at once started, and .this inav be'safely done while the gas is being use I claim: v l l.1. In an lacetylene gas apparatus, agenerator, a gas-holder of the tank and bell type, a plpe having an outlet connection with the -bell of the holder, and said pipe having a branch extending into the holder and into the sealing mediuml thereof, a valve in the 'first-mentioned pipe between the outlet connection and the branch, an outlet pipe from the generator connected to the first-mentioned pipe and having a shut-- oif valve, and a service pipe connected to said outlet pipe between the valve thereof and the connection between said pipe and the first-mentioned pipe.

2. In an acetylene gas apparatus, a generator, a gas-holder of the tank and bell type, a pipe having an outlet connection with the bell ofA the holder, and said pipe having a branch extending into the holder and into the sealing medium thereof, a valve in the first-mentioned pipe between the outlet connection and the branch, an outlet pipe'from the generator and having a shut-off valve, a exible hose connecting the outletvpipe to the first-mentioned pipe, and a service pipe connected to the outlet pipe between the valve thereof and the connection between said pipe and the flexible hose.

In testimonywhereof'I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW MOSER. Witnesses:

C. L. MORRISON, J H. CATRON, Jr.' 

